Useful Websites & Web 2.0 Applications

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Home & School (Chase):
Voki
(used to embed talking avatars)
Wikis
create a website used by a team of people
Glogster
make interactive posters
FreePlayMusic
create special musical backgrounds for podcasts and movies



Presentation Tools:

Animation Tools

Media Tools

Social Bookmarking:

• Diigo
• Delicious

Comic Strip Tools:

• Make Beliefs Comic
• Kerpoof
• ToonDoo
• Comiqs
• Speechable
• Go Animate
• My eBook
• Comic Creator
• Bubblesnaps

Social Bookmarking & Tagging:

• Diigo
• Diigo Educator
• Del.icio.us
• Blinklist

Blogs:

• Class Blogmeister
• Edublogs
• Blogger
• 21 Classes

RSS Feeds & Readers:

• Bloglines
• Google Reader
• My Yahoo
• Netvibes
• Pageflakes
• Grazr

Imaging Tools:

• Flickr
• Google Images
• Picnik
• Splashup
• Be Funky
• Mr. Picassohead

Video Tools:

• Teacher Tube
• You Tube
• School Tube
• Jumpcut
• Zamzar
• Moonk
  
  

Video Footage:

• Free Stock Video Footage

Synchronous Sharing & Editing Productivity:

• Google Docs
• Zoho
• Gliffy
• Bubble Us
• Mindmeister
• Mindomo

Podcasts/Audio Tools:

• Free Sound Effects
• StoneWashed Sound Effects
• Soundsnap
• Audacity
• GCast
• VoiceThread
• Lame
• Willowdale Elementary Podcast Radio Show
• Freeplay Music -Great for background music
• http://www.grsites.com/archive/sounds/
  http://www.soundsnap.com/#
  http://www.soundjay.com/
  http://www.findsounds.com/
  http://www.partnersinrhyme.com/pir/PIRsfx.shtml
  http://www.moviesoundclips.net/
  http://www.wavcentral.com/
  http://www.stonewashed.net/movie.html
  http://www.moviewavs.com/
  http://www.studentministry.org/freebie-friday-163-movie-sound-clips-trivia-game/
  http://www.moviesoundclips.net/sound.php?id=180
  
  
  
  
  Image/Video Mashup Applications:
• Animoto
• Scrapblog
• Glogster
• BubbleShare
• Download PhotoStory 3
• Blabberize
• Animasher
• Museum Box

Graphic Organizers:

• X Timelines
• Dippity Timeline
• Free Storyboards
• Ready-to-use Graphic Organizers
• Digital Storytelling Storyboard

Other Useful Websites:

• Creating Book Trailers
• Google Docs
• Wikispaces
• Tiny URL
• Slideshare
• Wordle
• Free Tech 4 Teachers
• DigiTales
• Make a Newspaper Clipping